London’s shadowy alleyways and timeworn cobbled streets have tales to tell. In its sewers, Victorian toshers (sewer hunters) would share stories of a Rat Queen who would protect them from drowning. The last of the British giants, Gog and Magog, stand guard at Guildhall and, legend has it, the London Stone – the city’s ‘magical heart’ – will cause the capital to fall if it’s ever moved or destroyed. From the ravens in the Tower to Jimi Hendrix’s green parakeets, this handbook features 100 ancient and modern myths, legends, customs and ceremonies from all areas of London, offering compelling insights into the city’s identity and its rich folklore.
Andy Goldsworthy tells the story of his career in his own words – from school art classrooms to the ambitious retrospective exhibition this book accompanies. In a wide-ranging and personal conversation, Goldsworthy recalls the triumphs and tribulations that have shaped his journey to become an artist of global renown. Illustrated by many of his iconic installations and ephemeral works, this book also includes previously unseen drawings for new creations. This is an unmissable account of the life and work of an artist pushing the boundaries of the art world.
“Some books are so special that words actually fall short. L’Atelier Five: Contagious Creativity is a beautiful example of this. Truly a magnificent book in which unprecedented creativity, exclusive luxury, and exceptional craftsmanship come together.” — NL Magazine
L’Atelier Five is the invisible hand behind glamorous brand activations and dazzling installations, creating opulent and engaging experiences that are imaginatively crafted to resonate on an emotional level. L’Atelier Five: Contagious Creativity celebrates the firm’s tenth anniversary by showcasing its award-winning projects and special collaborations with the world’s most acclaimed and luxurious brands, including Bulgari, Cartier, La Prairie, Dior and Hublot, among many others.
This superb monograph also shares the entrepreneurial journey of L’Atelier Five’s founder and managing director, Saina Attaoui. From humble beginnings, Saina has created a thriving enterprise that’s taken the world of designer goods by storm. An alchemist, outsider, entrepreneur, innovator and creative, Saina brings the world’s most luxurious brands, and their customers, on the extraordinary journey with her.
A source of inspiration, creativity, and ambition, this sumptuous book will appeal to luxury brand enthusiasts and professionals, and interior and graphic designers, among others.
“Grigoryan is superb on what marketers can learn from an artist’s way of seeing.” Elizabeth Chase, Decorative arts and design historian, advisor, and educator at Sotheby’s Art Institute
“As someone fascinated by the intersection of luxury, culture, and value creation, I found Art Thinking both intellectually stimulating and highly relevant. Vadim Grigoryan offers a compelling perspective on how art can become a catalyst for new ways of thinking, deeper meaning, and long-term value creation. An inspiring read for everyone interested in shaping the future through cultural agency.” – Felicitas Morhart, Dr. oec. Full Professor of Marketing, HEC Lausanne, Université de Lausanne
Art Thinking takes readers on a journey into the captivating intersection between art, luxury and fashion brands and businesses. It explores the notion of brands as cultural agents and how art can act as a mediator between meaning and management. The book allows the readers to develop skills in constructing strategic art initiatives and in management of artist collaborations and provides insight into the artistic process of creativity.
Divided into four chapters and supplemented with case studies, the book is supported by Vadim Grigoryan’s many years of experience, popular webinars and courses taught at leading business schools, such as INSEAD and cultural institutions, such as Sorbonne.
‘The ache of spring is undeniable. It hurts before it sings.’
Out in the American fields, skunk cabbages sprout like hooded baby goblins; arrow-like herons emerge with fish in their beaks; and fireflies return to the deep shadows of a summer night.
Wonderment is a beautiful anthology of seasonal poetry, written and illustrated by Sherry L. Ross.
Exploring the countryside with an acute understanding of Mother Nature’s magic and inspired by centuries of woodland and pastoral folklore, Ross’s words and images capture a genuine sense of awe, as light and dark come and go and each season in turn bends the landscape to its will. Having previously authored the charming children’s book Return of the Vinetropes, Ross is well placed to convey the innocent wonders of the natural world in this imaginative and visually stunning collection.
Perfect for fans of all things wild and wonderful.
“This gorgeous book is brimming with forest enchantments. Sherry L. Ross is equally dazzled and keen-eyed as she takes in the natural world season by season, celebrating faery folk and flowering flora, secret portals and thrashing summer storms, glimmering water sprites and all manner of woodland animal. Wonderment is, above all, about slowing down and taking in the magic—and joy—of every moment. You’ll want to savor Ross’s lyrical poems and charming drawings; they’re pure pleasure.” – Carolyn Turgeon, editor-in-chief and co-owner of Enchanted Living Magazine
In the seven centuries since its foundation, Clare College Cambridge has enabled successive generations of talented young people to ‘discover and acquire the precious pearl of learning’, and thereby to serve society. To mark the College’s 700th anniversary, 70 for 700: Members of Clare Through the Centuries comprises 70 pen-portraits of individuals associated with Clare through the ages. As well as famous alumni – including such luminaries as Hugh Latimer, Andrew Mellon, Siegfried Sassoon and David Attenborough – there are unfamiliar names and unsung heroes. The College’s impact has been felt around the world, and the individuals celebrated include alumni from Africa, Asia, America and continental Europe, as well as the British Isles. Lavishly illustrated with portraits from the College’s collection, this book highlights the global impact of one of the United Kingdom’s most venerable educational institutions.
“Moonwatch Only is certainly one of the best books ever written about a single watch model.” – William Massena – Timezone.com
“It is an indescribable reference work and a true must-have for every Speedmaster collector.” – Forbes
“This book sets a new standard. Not only for books on the Omega Speedmaster, but for watch books in general. I’ve never seen anything like it, and believe me when I tell you that I could fill an impressive sized wall with books on watches. Authors of other books or publishers should take a look at Moonwatch Only as well to see how it should be done.” – Robert Jan Broer – FratelloWatches
“The OMEGA Speedmaster Professional – the Moonwatch – has done things that no other timepiece has done and it’s been worn in places that only a few human beings have been.” – Captain Eugene Cernan, ‘Last man on the moon’
There are very few timepieces in the world that deserve a definitive and comprehensive book such as this one. The OMEGA Speedmaster Professional Moonwatch is one of them. Initially designed for automobile racing teams and engineers, the Omega Speedmaster embarked on a very different trajectory when NASA chose it to accompany astronauts heading for the Moon in 1965. Its involvement in the space adventure has propelled the Moonwatch to the top of the list of celebrated timepieces. After years of research and observation, the authors present a complete panorama of the Moonwatch in a systematic work that is both technical and attractive, making it the inescapable reference book for this legendary watch. This fourth edition has been enriched with much new material and illustrations.
This monograph dedicated to Claude Monet offers a rare and intimately documented perspective on one of the most beloved artists of the public. It is written by Philippe Piguet, an art historian, a recognized specialist of Monet and his great-grandson, custodian of unpublished documents and heir to a family memory shaped from childhood in the gardens of Giverny. The book provides a sensitive reading of the artist’s work, seen from within, which renews the understanding of an artistic journey that has become universal.
This book aims to establish itself as an essential reference for understanding how the artist transformed the perception of light and the history of modern painting.
The Craft of Baking in Copenhagen is a journey into one of the world’s most vibrant baking cultures. Across 16 of the city’s most acclaimed bakeries, this book captures the essence of a craft where tradition meets relentless innovation. Through evocative photography and intimate texts, we step inside the ovens, the early mornings, and the quiet precision behind each loaf and pastry. From perfectly laminated croissants to deeply fermented sourdoughs, Copenhagen’s bakers have redefined what modern baking can be—rooted in Nordic ingredients, driven by technique, and shaped by a distinct sense of style. More than a collection of bakeries, this is a portrait of a city where baking has become culture. A place where flavor, craftsmanship, and aesthetic refinement come together in every detail. For those who care about what they eat—and how it is made—this book offers a rare and inspiring look at the craft of baking in Copenhagen.
In Signs of New York, architect and photographer Emma Verhagen invites you on a visual journey through the streets of the Big Apple. With a keen eye for detail, she captures the most fascinating signs, typefaces, and graphic gems found in the public realm. From iconic restaurant logos and vintage advertising murals to the distinctive signage of the subway: every photograph is paired with the exact location where it was captured. This collection is presented in a beautifully crafted, tactile hardcover. Featuring elegant foil stamping and printed on premium uncoated paper, it serves as the perfect souvenir for any New York visitor, as well as a must-have for enthusiasts of typography, graphic design, and urban nostalgia.
“When one is tired of London, one is tired of life.” – Samuel Johnson London has long been a center of the literary world. From Shakespeare to Amis, Byron to Blake, Plath, Thomas, Christie and Rowling; many of the greatest names in literature have made this metropolis their home. Writers’ London guides the reader through homes, bookshops, pubs and cemeteries, in search of where literary greats loved and lost, drank and died. Discover the Islington building where Joe Orton was murdered by his lover, the Soho pub where Dylan Thomas left his manuscript, the Chelsea hotel where Oscar Wilde was arrested, and the Bank of England where Kenneth Graham was shot at (and missed) three times. Gathering hundreds of famous and less-well-known anecdotes, this meticulously researched volume will entertain any lover of literature. Also in the series: Vinyl London ISBN 9781788840156 Rock ‘n’ Roll London ISBN 9781788840163 Art London ISBN 9781788840385 London Peculiars ISBN 9781851499182
The popular Insta Grammar series comprises the most beautiful – and interesting – thematic photos on Instagram, presented in a fresh, pleasing package at an affordable price. After Cats, City, Nordic and Green comes Graphic and Insta Grammar Dogs. The motto is: graphic design is the new art, and dogs are the new cats. Graphic includes the work of up and coming designers; Dogs includes, well, dogs. Off-beat and appealing, the books in this growing series take the doubt out of choosing the perfect gift for millennials. Quotes, sometimes quirky but always apt, are sprinkled throughout. Insta Grammar Cats ISBN 9789401436953 Insta Grammar: Nordic ISBN 9789401436946 Insta Grammar: City ISBN 9789401436915 Insta Grammar: Green ISBN 9789401440554 Insta Grammar: Graphic ISBN 9789401441599
A happy lion and a sad dog, a screaming face and a smiling face – and a sun in all the colors of the rainbow. Explore language, imagination and the world through Edvard Munch’s exciting, funny, strange and beautiful pictures. A fun and inspiring book for children who are just learning their first words.
Please Look in the Basement is a quirky collection of posters of lost cats, dogs, birds and other pets, carefully curated from the collection of Maarten Inghels, Jan Lemaire, Jean-Michel Meyers, Denis Meyers and Nicolas Marichal from Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent. Fellow collector and writer Maarten Inghels took the posters as the starting point for conversations with the owners. Apart from the posters, this maverick collectible bundles whimsical anecdotes about loneliness and friendship in the big city. How do you find an escaped animal? Does a cat survive a fall from the fourth floor? And did the fortune-teller really see the location of the lost dog in her crystal ball? Please Look in the Basement is an ode to the bizarre occurrences of our four-legged friends and the doltish typography of homemade posters. Inghels tells the stories of pets who one day decide to go their own way.
Text in English, French and Dutch.
Created over three years in Baffin Island, Echoes of the Pack by photographer Guadalupe Laiz focuses on the Arctic dogs, the guardians and partners to the Inuit. Stationed farthest from town, where they live in prolonged isolation, tethered to the sea ice, these individuals are largely unseen and rarely photographed.
Guadalupe’s stark and evocative black-and-white photographs and select color images are simple and direct, without drama or embellishment. Among the photographs are short, poetic texts written from Guadalupe’s perspective and from the imagined points of view of the dogs themselves—voices that reflect patience, labor, and presence.
Echoes of the Pack brings visibility to a complex subject, shining a light on the Arctic dog, among the strongest and hardiest animals on the planet, who endures one of Earth’s harshest environments. It does so without judgment, and with respect for Inuit culture and leadership, fully acknowledging the history, hardship, and resilience of Inuit communities.
A richly illustrated book about the celebrated connoisseur, collector and philanthropist Sir Richard Wallace (1818-1890), published by the Wallace Collection to mark the bicentenary of his birth.
Includes 490 illustrations and new information on Wallace’s origins and life.
Designer Andy Altmann has been pursuing an obsession with typographic oddities for more than 30 years; and he’s not necessarily interested in the kind of thing you might expect. He delights in the weird and wonderful and finds inspiration in the ordinary. At last, he has organized his typographic hits and misses in a 400-page, whopper of a scrapbook. Conceived and edited by Andy, typo* is a cornucopia of curiosities. Between its covers you’ll find everything from Swiss minimalism to Victorian street signs, from soap packets to magazine covers, from high art to the handmade. Essential is too small a word for this book: every graphic designer and typographer should have a copy. Keep it by the keyboard or refer to it secretly when stuck for an idea, you’ll wonder how you ever managed without it.
*typo (noun): an error (as of spelling) in typed or typeset material; (abbr.) typography or typographer
Curated and introduced by Ian Warrell, the leading expert on Turner, this selection from the fabled Hickman Bacon collection is one of the finest groups of British watercolors in existence, and hardly ever seen or reproduced. Centered around 32 watercolors by Turner, including some of his breathtaking views of the Alps, early views, and late cloud and sea studies, the collection also encompasses some of the greatest works by Turner’s contemporaries: John Sell Cotman, Alexander Cozens, Thomas Girtin, Peter de Wint, John Crome, David Cox and others. Beautifully printed on heavy uncoated paper, with some reproductions life size, this book conveys the intensity and freshness and stupendous virtuosity of these artists whose work in watercolor has never been rivaled. An extended essay by the leading expert and former Tate curator Ian Warrell examines the paintings and gives a vivid picture of the artists who made them.
“From a timeworn Cuban palacio layered with history and art to a converted London rectory brimming with theatrical flair, Bold Living offers a global journey through homes that defy convention and embrace uniqueness, photographed by renowned visual storyteller Guillaume de Laubier.” — Aspire Magazine
Step inside Bold Living, a book that takes you through some extravagant, bold, and very personal homes. Bold Living is a celebration of lavish decors, striking colours, rich materials, and unusual combinations. The interiors in Bold Living reveal the personalities of the people who live in them: conceptual artists, a gallery owner, a haute-couture florist, resounding names in the world of fashion, etc. Each of them transformed their place into a bold home, uncompromisingly so. Guillaume de Laubier’s interior photographs are given plenty of breathing space in this visually stunning book, which invites you to add your own spice to your interior.
After 60 years and with over 150,000 copies sold, J. G. Links’ classic remains for many the best book ever written about Venice. Structured as four walks, it takes the visitors from the grandest campi to the tiniest alleyways, with surprises and unexpected delights at every turn. But as well as a wonderful companion in Venice itself, it is also one of the most evocative accounts of the city in English, by a writer who wore his learning like the finest gossamer. In Jan Morris’s words, “None of Venice’s innumerable chroniclers have portrayed the Serenissima’s character with quite such a combination of the scholarly, the informal and the intimate… Over the years, thousands of readers, starting this book, have been relieved to encounter its famously undemanding approach to the city: ‘Generally the first thing to do in Venice is to sit down and have some coffee’. But by the time they get to the end of it, all the same, they will have learnt virtually everything that an educated stranger needs to know about the place, its art and its history – besides being subtly entertained throughout.“
After 60 years and with over 150,000 copies sold, J. G. Links’ classic remains for many the best book ever written about Venice. Structured as four walks, it takes the visitors from the grandest campi to the tiniest alleyways, with surprises and unexpected delights at every turn. But as well as a wonderful companion in Venice itself, it is also one of the most evocative accounts of the city in English, by a writer who wore his learning like the finest gossamer. In Jan Morris’s words, “None of Venice’s innumerable chroniclers have portrayed the Serenissima’s character with quite such a combination of the scholarly, the informal and the intimate… Over the years, thousands of readers, starting this book, have been relieved to encounter its famously undemanding approach to the city: ‘Generally the first thing to do in Venice is to sit down and have some coffee’. But by the time they get to the end of it, all the same, they will have learnt virtually everything that an educated stranger needs to know about the place, its art and its history – besides being subtly entertained throughout.“
“A riveting new book….” — Free York
“Women photographers are dangerous, and by celebrating over sixty of them, so too is this book. Adler and Bouveresse set the record straight, shaking up a historically inaccurate narrative that leaves out female voices and fails to represent subjects who ask to be seen.” — Musee Magazine
Women Photographers are Dangerous celebrates more than 60 women photographers who have long deserved greater recognition for their extraordinary work. Many of these pioneers, innovators and artists have ventured into war zones, politics, feminist activism and more. All have taken risks and freed themselves from established frameworks, simply by being who they are and doing what they do.
Ever since Louis Daguerre introduced the first camera to the world in 1838, women photographers have been present and excelled in every field, from art and the sciences to journalism and advertising. Yet all too often, they are denied the spotlight they deserve. Written and compiled by renowned historians Laure Adler and Clara Bouveresse, these pages set the record straight.
Featuring over 100 outstanding photographic works by women photographers including Eve Arnold with her famous Marilyn Monroe portraits; Vivian Maier, whose photos were discovered only after death; and Anne Atkins, who is believed by some to have created the first ever photographic image.
Photographers include: Anna Atkins, Julia Margaret Cameron, Virginia De Castiglione, Christina Broom, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Alice Austen, Olive Edis, Laure Albin Guillot, Imogen Cunningham, Claude Cahun, Dorothea Lange, Tina Modotti, Berenice Abbott, Anita Conti, Lisette Model, Margaret Bourke-White, Grete Stern, Dora Maar, Julia Pirotte, Lee Miller, Edith Tudor-Hart, Gerda Taro, Eve Arnold, Helen Levitt, Janine Niépce, Diane Arbus, Lisetta Carmi, Vivian Maier, Agnès Varda, Claudia Andujar, Claude Batho, Letizia Battaglia, Marianne Wex, Martine Franck, Sarah Moon, Sandra Eleta, Abigail Heyman, Graciela Iturbide, Paz Errázuriz, Catherine Leroy, Christine Spengler, Paola Agosti, Ishiuchi Miyako, Susan Meiselas, Sophie Ristelhueber, Erica Lennard, Donna Gottschalk, Alix Cléo Roubaud, Sophie Calle, Nan Goldin, Anne Noble, Cindy Sherman, Pushpamala N., Ouka Leele, Shirin Neshat, Francesca Woodman, Lorna Simpson, Angèle Etoundi, Essamba, Désirée Dolron, Géraldine Lay, Zanele Muholi, Sara Bennett, Shadi Ghadirian, Tarrah Krajnak, Gohar Dashti, Laia Abril, Bieke Depoorter, Maya Inès Touam.
Japanese woodblock prints, exemplified by iconic works such as Hokusai’s Great Wave, Utamaro’s portraits of beauties, Hiroshige’s Heavy Rain on Ohashi Bridge, and Kuniyoshi’s tattooed warriors, rank among the most influential art forms in history. While celebrated artists are widely known, the publishers, carvers, printers, and other collaborators who shaped production and distribution have often remained overlooked. Publishers drove the commercial print industry, assessing demand, commissioning designs, financing production, securing censor approval, and managing carving, printing, and sales. The Japanese Woodblock Prints Companion: Publishers, Carvers, Printers, Censors, Collectors examines this collaborative process and restores attention to these essential contributors. Andreas Marks profiles more than 1,900 publishers and nearly 900 carvers and printers, provides publication lists for almost 1,000 artists, and reproduces thousands of seals dating from the 1640s to the 1990s. Documenting places of operation, active periods, and professional networks, this extensive reference offers scholars and collectors a comprehensive guide.